The Renegade Writer Blog

I’ve been stepping up my posting on the blog, and I’d like to know what our readers would like to see covered. Do you want more Q&As with renegade writers? Info on querying? Motivational pieces that give you a writerly kick in the pants?
I’m very interested in serving writers through the markets wiki, the Renegade [...]

An editor of mine at a trade pub recently hired a well-credentialed writer to write an article. A week later, my editor’s boss received angry phone calls from two of the sources the editor provided to the writer. The writer, they complained, didn’t know what magazine she was writing for or what the article was [...]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that Elaine Grant’s e-course Magazine Writing Basics starts on Monday. Please join us! [lf]
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I’ve taken up twittering. A few days ago, one of the writers I follow tweeted, “Well, it’s done and sent.” I could practically hear her sigh of relief. It resonated with me. When I’m juggling multiple assignments, my only goal is often just to finish – to cross another article off of my to-do list.
While [...]

This article is by Gina Hiatt, Ph.D., president of Academic Writing Club and Academic Ladder. Reprinted with permission.
Thought: I need to warm up first by writing some email.
Rebuttal: You can warm up by starting the work slowly, making a list of what you will do, reading over your notes or writing from yesterday
Thought: I’m not [...]

Thanks, everyone, for nominating us as a top writing blog over at Michael Stelzner’s Writing White Papers blog. For the second year running, we made the top 10! Congrats to all the winners:

Copyblogger: As the undefeated champ, this blog has held the number-one spot for three straight years! The baby of Brian Clark, this [...]

This post is by guest blogger Michelle V. Rafter, owner of the fabulous WordCount blog. Thanks, Michelle!
Last September I was getting ready to start writing again after spending most of the previous seven years at home with my kids. I was totally out of touch with the freelance world and way behind on the subjects [...]

A great tip if you hate going through your stories and marking them up for magazines’ factcheckers: annotate as you write your story. All you need is a word processing software program that has a footnote function. Here’s what you do:
Open a document and start writing. Every time you write something a factchecker will question, [...]

So many people have asked me for phone mentoring that I’ve finally decided to offer this service. After spending a few days with coach Monique Parker at the Yoga of Writing Retreat in New Mexico last week, I determined that I want to help writers in a more personal way than I can through my [...]

Well, the troops have really mobilized over the last week for our freelancing colleague, Lori Hall Steele. Right after I posted last week, three amazing freelancers, Kristen Hains, Jane Boursaw, and Rachel Weingarten, put together a website for Lori’s cause.
I had suggested a blog-a-thon for Lori’s benefit and am thrilled so many of my writing [...]